Laundry-bag.



PATBNTED. APR. 10, 1007.

W. E. VOSS.

LAUNDRY BAG.v

APPLIUATION FILED P1304. 1007.

Inventor 629i tumbas WILLIAM E. voss, or ooLiiiIis-IA, r1ENNESSEE.

LAUNDRY-BAG.

Application filed February 4, 1907. Serial No. 355,627.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

' atenteor Apr-11,16, 1907.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. Voss, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Columbia, in the county of Maury and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laundry-Bags, of which the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention. has reference-to laundrybags emplo ed in public laundries for the purpose of eeping different lots of clothes segregated during their passage through the washing-machine. IIeretofore a fiexible bag has been employed for this purpose, which bag was provided throughout its body with metal-bound perforations for the passage of the water. In practice, however, this bag would become split or torn and soon become worthless, while the metallic eyelets employed for binding the edges of the perforations would tear and ,otherwise injure the clothes in the bag. Y

The object of my invention is to increase the'durability of the bag without affecting its I iiexibility or materially altering its weight. This object is attained in a bag of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings; and the invention consists in certain novel features of the same, as will be hereinafter first fully described and then particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a broken elevation of my improved bag. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the Iine'2 2 of Fig. 1. Fi 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of ig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a sectional view take-n on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1,

The bag 5 has aclosed lower end and `is provided with a draw-string 6, by which its upper end may be closed to hold the clothes within the bag. The baclr is preferably formed of canvas or heavy duck material, so as to have the necessary iiexibility and strength. The body of the bag is provided throughout with perforctions 7 at compara- 4tivel close intervals, which are arranged In para lel transverse and longitudinal rows for convenience of manufacture. In order to protect the edgesof the perforations and l l I Amitting free ingress and egress revent fraying of the same, a binding 8, of ieavy thread, 1s formed around lthe same.

Between the rows of perforations flexible reinforcing-strips 9 are sewed upon the bag, and these strips are preferably of the same material as the bag. It will be noticed that the strips are passed entirely across and along they bag and overlap at their points of intersection, so that they form squares having perforations at their centers. Thisl formation insures great strength for the bag at the points of greatest strain without inthe sli htest degree detracting from its flexibi ity. The longitudinal strips are extended to the top or mouth of the bag and are formed with slots or openin s 10, coincidin Jr with the openings in the ody of the bag 2for the passage of the draw-string. -These openings are bound with heavy thread, so as to resist the Wear of the draw-string and prevent fraying or tearing of the openings.

In use the articles to be washed are placed within the bag, vwhich is then closed and placed in the washing-machine. During the washing operation the bag is mechanically moved `through the washing fluids at such a rate as to cause the fluids to ass readily through it and the articles contained therein. .T he perforations in the bag permit the ready egress and ingress of the fluids, and the texture is such as to protect the clothes from damage and prevent them from becoming compacted. 4

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat,- ent, is-

1. A new article of manufacture comprising a fiexible bag provided throughout its body with perforations permitting free ingress and egress of fluids and having flexible strips permanently secured-to its body between the perforations.

2. A new article of manufacture comprising` a'fiexible laundry-bag having its body provided throughout with perforations perflexible1 reinforcing-strips permanently secured to the body 1n parallel transverse and longitudinal rows between the perforations.

3. A newfarticle of manufacture comprising a flexible. laundry-bag having its body of fluids and IOO provided with perforations permitting free l In testimony whereof I have signed this ingress and egress of uids, and flexible reinspecification in the presence of two subscribforcing-strips permanently secured to the ing Wltnesses.

body 1n parallel rows between the perfora,- WILLIAM E. VOSS. 5 tions7 the longitudinal strips being extended Witnesses:

to the mouth of the bag and provided with JN0. W. FRIERsoN,

bound openings to receive a. fastening means. B. F. DAVIS. 

